Alert archive / Alabama / Mesoscale Discussions / 2016
Mesoscale Discussions in Alabama, March 2016
18 mesoscale discussions in March 2016. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.
Mesoscale Discussions by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in March 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 18
- Busiest day
- March 31, 20166 mesoscale discussions
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 1:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chilton, Choctaw, Clay and 11 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 1, 4:51 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Bibb, Calhoun, Chilton, Choctaw, Clay and 15 more | 114 min |
| Mar 1, 7:08 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Chambers, Lee, Randolph | 67 min |
| Mar 1, 8:42 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Russell | 63 min |
| Mar 3, 1:13 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Mobile and 2 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 3, 5:07 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Escambia, Monroe, Washington | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:44 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Clarke, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington and 7 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 11:14 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Mobile | 2 hr |
| Mar 17, 5:01 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 7 more | 89 min |
| Mar 17, 6:22 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Choctaw, Clarke, Mobile, Washington | 53 min |
| Mar 24, 11:26 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Autauga, Baldwin, Bibb, Butler, Chilton, Choctaw and 22 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 24, 2:58 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Barbour, Coffee, Covington, Crenshaw, Dale, Geneva and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 7:47 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Washington | 58 min |
| Mar 31, 8:37 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Choctaw, Clarke, Conecuh, Covington and 6 more | 53 min |
| Mar 31, 11:29 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Butler, Coffee, Conecuh, Covington, Crenshaw and 5 more | 2 hr |
| Mar 31, 1:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Baldwin, Covington, Escambia, Geneva | 58 min |
| Mar 31, 4:47 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Choctaw, Clarke, Colbert and 19 more | 58 min |
| Mar 31, 6:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bibb, Blount, Choctaw, Colbert, Cullman, Dallas and 22 more | 53 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Choctaw County9
- Baldwin County9
- Escambia County8
- Clarke County7
- Conecuh County7
- Monroe County7
- Washington County7
- Covington County7
- Mobile County6
- Crenshaw County6
- Bibb County5
- Dallas County5
- Greene County5
- Hale County5
- Jefferson County5
- Marengo County5
- Perry County5
- Sumter County5
- Butler County5
- Geneva County5
- Chilton County4
- Shelby County4
- Tuscaloosa County4
- Coffee County4
- Dale County4
- Wilcox County4
- Autauga County3
- Coosa County3
- Houston County3
- Calhoun County2
- Clay County2
- St. Clair County2
- Talladega County2
- Randolph County2
- Henry County2
- Pike County2
- Lowndes County2
- Blount County2
- Colbert County2
- Cullman County2
21 more counties
- Fayette County2
- Franklin County2
- Lamar County2
- Lawrence County2
- Marion County2
- Pickens County2
- Walker County2
- Winston County2
- Cleburne County1
- Tallapoosa County1
- Chambers County1
- Lee County1
- Russell County1
- Elmore County1
- Montgomery County1
- Barbour County1
- Lauderdale County1
- Limestone County1
- Madison County1
- Marshall County1
- Morgan County1
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.